Narcissism and career success: Occupational self-efficacy and career engagement as mediators

Hirschi, Andreas; Jaensch, Vanessa K. (2015). Narcissism and career success: Occupational self-efficacy and career engagement as mediators. Personality and individual differences, 77, pp. 205-208. Elsevier 10.1016/j.paid.2015.01.002

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Narcissism is a personality trait that has potentially important effects on career development outcomes, yet empirical research on this issue is sparse. The present study explored the relationships between narcissism and two indicators of career success (i.e., salary and career satisfaction) among a group of young professionals (N = 314). We assessed a model proposing that the effect of narcissism on career success is mediated by increased occupational self-efficacy beliefs and career engagement. While correlations between narcissism and the two indicators of career success were minimal, the results showed a significant indirect effect on salary via occupational self-efficacy and indirect effects on career satisfaction via self-efficacy and career engagement. We discuss the results regarding insights into why narcissism may lead to career success

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Work and Organisational Psychology

UniBE Contributor:

Hirschi, Andreas

Subjects:

100 Philosophy > 150 Psychology
300 Social sciences, sociology & anthropology

ISSN:

0191-8869

Publisher:

Elsevier

Language:

English

Submitter:

Christine Soltermann

Date Deposited:

09 Aug 2016 13:46

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 14:57

Publisher DOI:

10.1016/j.paid.2015.01.002

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Narcissism; Career success; Occupational self-efficacy; Career engagement

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.85332

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/85332

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